2024 Call for Abstracts is OPEN
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Working on your abstract for 2024 NACCHO360? With so many valuable workshops, sessions and posters to choose from, how can you ensure that attendees will choose yours? The first step is writing a compelling session description that quickly conveys the value of your session to readers.
Here are some tips:
- DO develop a short, creative title. Fun, clever titles often grab attention.
- DO describe the actual project outcomes or results.
- DO include actual project data to demonstrate project impact, effectiveness and results, where applicable.
- DO keep the description short and simple. Summarize the issue or problem and how the presenter addressed it. Describe what presenters will discuss and what attendees will learn. In other words, what’s in it for them?
- DON’T use first-person voice (“I/We did this…”). DO use third-person voice by listing the name of your agency or health department (“The ABC Health Department did this…”).
- DO spell out all acronyms, including organization names and program names.
- DO be consistent when listing multiple presenters’ names. DO use formal names and avoid nicknames, unless the presenter uses his or her nickname professionally. DON’T include middle initials.
- DO spell out the full name of your organization when listing presenter information (e.g., “Association of State and Territorial Health Officials” not “ASTHO”) and use a postal abbreviation for your state (e.g., “Baltimore, MD”)
- DON’T forget to proofread your submission to ensure it is complete and reader-friendly. While NACCHO may lightly copyedit submissions for style, grammar, and tone, NACCHO cannot return to the presenters for clarification and will often make a best guess if words or sentences are incomplete or confusing.
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Abstract Submission Guidelines
The 2024 NACCHO360 Annual Conference invites public health professionals nationwide to showcase and share their research findings, best practice training models, tools, or other resources that advance the field of public health and healthcare.
The abstract submission period is open through December 31, 2023 (11:59 PM PT). Deadline extensions are not guaranteed. Sessions will be organized around this year’s conference theme.
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Registration Opening Next Week!
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| Sessions at the conference will be organized around this year’s theme, "Heard it Through the Grapevine: Public Health Partnerships, Collaboration, and Innovation."
Abstract submissions should describe innovative, proven, or promising evidence-based practices, programs, services, systems, research, technologies, tools, partnerships, principles, and policies. Sessions should offer insight or guidance that attendees can readily use to advance the work in their communities. Submissions may also suggest improvements, challenges, solutions, theories, and concepts from other fields that may be applied to the work of local health departments.
This year's conference tracks are:
- Behavioral & Mental Health/Substance Use
- Communication, Marketing, & Messaging
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology & Communicable Disease
- Health Equity & Social Determinants of Health
- Informatics, Surveillance, & IT
- Public Health Services
- Workforce & Leadership
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